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Playwright v1.20.1stable Released Mar 23, 2022
Impact Score: 5/10

Playwright v1.20.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Playwright v1.20.1. Source highlight: This patch includes the following bug fixes:

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## Highlights This patch includes the following bug fixes: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/12711 - [REGRESSION] Page.screenshot hangs on some sites https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/12807 - [BUG] Cookies get assigned before fulfilling a response https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/12814 - [Question] how to use expect.any in playwright https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/12821 - [BUG] Chromium: Cannot click, element intercepts pointer events https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/12836 - [REGRESSION]: Tests not detected as ES module in v1.20 https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/12862 - [Feature] Allow to use toMatchSnapshot for file formats other than txt (e.g. csv) https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/12887 - [BUG] Locator.count() with _vue selector with Repro https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/12940 - [BUG] npm audit - High Severity vulnerability in json5 package forcing to install Playwright 1.18.1 https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/12974 - [BUG] Regression - chromium browser closes during test or debugging session on macos ## Browser Versions - Chromium 101.0.4921.0 - Mozilla Firefox 97.0.1 - WebKit 15.4 This version was also tested against the following stable channels: - Google Chrome 99 - Microsoft Edge 99
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